The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers’ in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.

On 22 March 2011, Judge Denny Chin issued his much anticipated ruling in the Google Book Search class action lawsuit pending before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Five organisations representing EU publishers, libraries, rights holders as well as businesses active in Internet commerce told the European Commission today that the proposed US Google book settlement is unacceptable in its present form, saying the deal would lead to a de facto monopoly.